Shell Q2 profit slides to US$6.3 billion on weaker trading, refining
It will buy back a further US$3.5 billion in shares over the next three months
SHELL reported a 19 per cent quarter-on-quarter drop in profit to US$6.3 billion on Thursday (Aug 1) reflecting weaker refining margins and oil and gas trading, though still beat analysts’ forecasts.
The British company also said it would buy back a further US$3.5 billion in shares over the next three months, at a similar rate to the previous quarter.
It kept its dividend unchanged at 34 US cents per share.
Shell’s second-quarter adjust earnings, its definition of net profit, exceeded analysts’ expectations of US$6 billion.
They rose from US$5.1 billion a year earlier, but were lower than the US$7.7 billion profit Shell booked in the first quarter.
The quarter-on-quarter fall reflected lower prices and sale volumes as well as weaker trading at Shell’s flagship liquefied natural gas division, which were a result of seasonally lower demand.
Lower refining margins and weaker oil trading also weighed on the results. REUTERS
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